One of the design challenges I met was the four faced clock tower, I am very happy with my running four LEGO clock solution. So you can imagine how thrilled I am today (3/7/2011) to learn that the four faced Seth Thomas clock has been restored to running condition! The 1898 Central Fire Station's clock tower stands today at Mayo Civic Center.

I went to Brickworld 2009 one of the many things that happened there was LEGO introduced the Fire Brigade 10197 set
The Cafe Corner modular houses had become very popular in TexLUG (they are even more popular now!) and I knew that Fire Brigade would be very popular. So I come up with the idea to build the Central Fire Station it needed to be older than 1932. Google searches turned up Rochester's 1898 Central Fire Station, and I really liked it's look.

Hi, I just wanted to say that I am blown away by your Central Station project. I am a member of the Rochester Fire Department and have always cherished the images of that beautiful part of our Cities and Departments history. Where did you find the info to design the floor layouts? I've never seen that only images of the front and the inside of the lower level. Very impressive, glad I found this. Is this piece something you still have?

Absolutely love it. This is quite possibly the most spectacular Lego fire station I have ever seen. How long did it take to build, how many parts are involved and most importantly, how hid you do the appliance room doors? I am building a British County Borough fire brigade from the 1950's, I have 5 appliances nearing completion with 1 station in progress & 1 a distant pipe dream.

Quoting Oggy the 2nd
Show off!
Been waiting for this puppy for a while, hey Kurt. Man i thought it was a sensational build before, but the addition of the reference pictures has taken it to a heavenly plain. It is almost impossible to pick any difference between the two.

Thanks Oggy, It's been your comments which motivated me to get the pics and write-up done! But, please note the overwhelming number of likes...

Quoting Oggy the 2nd
The only thing i would love to see you do is build the two horse drawn fire carts to go with it. Other than that faultless.

I have thought about that! I wanted to set the date to match the Fire Brigade ie. 1930s.
Read about my searches for Seagrave photos in the section "How I came to build this Aerial Ladder Truck" here: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/255345 . Also please note that the two Seagraves engines are numbered 2 and 3, I can see me MOCing "old fire engine number 1"!

Quoting Oggy the 2nd
Mmmmm so much dark red mmmm . I did ask Sava how much it cost you, he said you don't talk about things like that , but i would really love to know as i think it gives other people starting out some perspective as to what they can aspire to and the cost involved.

This is a beautiful fire station. I saw this on Flickr first along with your Whataburger. Any chance of getting some more pictures of your Whataburger? Would love to see some more of the details of that one too.

Quoting Brian Lyles
This is just awesome. Where others might shy away from that one because of the size you took it head on and made it look just like the real thing. I can tell there was a lot of time that went into this one and it shows. I saw it on brick-town-talk.com

Thanks Brian! high praise. The 4 running LOGO clocks was one of the many challenges, in building this.

This is just awesome. Where others might shy away from that one because of the size you took it head on and made it look just like the real thing. I can tell there was a lot of time that went into this one and it shows. I saw it on brick-town-talk.com

Show off!
Been waiting for this puppy for a while, hey Kurt. Man i thought it was a sensational build before, but the addition of the reference pictures has taken it to a heavenly plain. It is almost impossible to pick any difference between the two. The only thing i would love to see you do is build the two horse drawn fire carts to go with it. Other than that faultless.Mmmmm so much dark red mmmm . I did ask Sava how much it cost you, he said you don't talk about things like that , but i would really love to know as i think it gives other people starting out some perspective as to what they can aspire to and the cost involved. Cheers Oggy.

Quoting Arthur Gugick
I saw this at BW. Amazing. The attention to detail and many of the techniques used to achieve the effects are some of the best I've ever seen. Can't wait to see what you'll be bringing this year.
Arthur

Thanks Arthur!
I am sad to say that my plans for the BrickWorld 2011 weekend are NOT to be at BrickWorld. I made a commitment approximately 3 years ago to be at an event in Stockholm, Sweden which got scheduled for the same weekend. I be back in 2012!
kurt

I saw this at BW. Amazing. The attention to detail and many of the techniques used to achieve the effects are some of the best I've ever seen. Can't wait to see what you'll be bringing this year.
Arthur